Cisco Cisco UCS Director 4.0 White Paper
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Application Infrastructure on Demand with Cisco UCS Director and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
March 2015
A New Operational Model
More than a century ago, the combination of standardization and automation
increased the world’s production capabilities, allowing business to generate greater
revenue. Today, with twentieth-century data centers no longer able to keep pace
with the rapid rate of change, data centers are in the midst of an automation
revolution of their own. Just as in the past, standardization and automation in the
data center can propel greater revenue for business.
increased the world’s production capabilities, allowing business to generate greater
revenue. Today, with twentieth-century data centers no longer able to keep pace
with the rapid rate of change, data centers are in the midst of an automation
revolution of their own. Just as in the past, standardization and automation in the
data center can propel greater revenue for business.
The combination of Cisco UCS Director and ACI delivers standardized automation
to the provisioning and orchestration of IT infrastructure. Standardization helps you
reduce the number of different application profiles that you need to create by taking
advantage of the fact that most applications fit into a small number of standardized
infrastructure models. Self-service and automation capabilities combine to allow
a diverse range of users to order what they need on demand and take delivery
within minutes, eliminating the need for manual provisioning and deprovisioning
of infrastructure resources. And the close integration of Cisco UCS Director and
Cisco ACI delivers not only infrastructure automation but an excellent foundation for
customers seeking to expand into more sophisticated use cases such as private
cloud and platform as a service (PaaS).
to the provisioning and orchestration of IT infrastructure. Standardization helps you
reduce the number of different application profiles that you need to create by taking
advantage of the fact that most applications fit into a small number of standardized
infrastructure models. Self-service and automation capabilities combine to allow
a diverse range of users to order what they need on demand and take delivery
within minutes, eliminating the need for manual provisioning and deprovisioning
of infrastructure resources. And the close integration of Cisco UCS Director and
Cisco ACI delivers not only infrastructure automation but an excellent foundation for
customers seeking to expand into more sophisticated use cases such as private
cloud and platform as a service (PaaS).
Introducing Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director orchestrates and automates your IT infrastructure lifecycle
from initial provisioning to final decommissioning. It manages every aspect of IT
infrastructure across computing, networking, and storage resources, with physical
and virtual resources treated equally (Figure 1). Through a self-service portal,
Cisco UCS Director provides the capability to deploy the IT infrastructure to support
applications in private cloud environments. Cisco UCS Director:
• Implements a process-oriented approach to infrastructure orchestration that
Cisco UCS Director orchestrates and automates your IT infrastructure lifecycle
from initial provisioning to final decommissioning. It manages every aspect of IT
infrastructure across computing, networking, and storage resources, with physical
and virtual resources treated equally (Figure 1). Through a self-service portal,
Cisco UCS Director provides the capability to deploy the IT infrastructure to support
applications in private cloud environments. Cisco UCS Director:
• Implements a process-oriented approach to infrastructure orchestration that
automates the processes you define using built-in workflows or your own
combination of more than 1200 built-in tasks—including tasks that tightly couple
Cisco UCS Director with Cisco ACI.
combination of more than 1200 built-in tasks—including tasks that tightly couple
Cisco UCS Director with Cisco ACI.
• Automates the IT processes necessary to accomplish infrastructure provisioning
and decommissioning using a role- and policy-based model that limits
administrator and client capabilities so that they can implement only infrastructure
that complies with the policies that you have established.
administrator and client capabilities so that they can implement only infrastructure
that complies with the policies that you have established.
• Manages IT infrastructure orchestration and automation from a single user
interface
• Provisions physical and virtual computing, Layer 4 through 7 network services,
and storage resources
• Establishes secure multitenant environments so that clients—internal or external
to your company—can work within the secure constraints of their own resource
pools
pools
• Supports single and multitier application infrastructure profiles
• Provides metering and showback capabilities so that your organization can be
• Provides metering and showback capabilities so that your organization can be
properly compensated for the IT services you provide
• Supports heterogeneous data centers that have computing, networking,
virtualization, and storage resources provided by more than one vendor